Cbonds has prepared the league tables for investment banks – the arrangers of Eastern Europe's bonds in 2017 – Cbonds release

We are pleased
to announce the publication of the league tables for investment banks – the
arrangers of placement of domestic corporate bonds in the Eastern European
market by the end of 2017. Only Plain Vanilla bonds are represented in the
league tables, i.e. excluding commercial papers, securitized bonds, and
structured products.

At year-end
2017, the cumulative volume of the registered issues amounted to 17.892 billion
US dollars.

UniCredit is ranked the highest in the main league table with a result of 5,109 million US dollars and 14 issues. It is followed by mBank / DM mBanku, which arranged 35 issues for a total of 1,571 million US dollars, and DM PKO BP / PKO Bank Polski, which took part in arranging the placement of 14 issues for 1,148 million US dollars.

The following league tables
were published:

Top five investment banks – arrangers of placement of domestic
corporate bonds in Eastern Europe, 2017

Investment bank

Size, million USD

Market share, %

Number of issuers

Number of issues

UniCredit

5109

28.56

7

14

mBank / DM mBanku

1571

8.78

22

35

DM PKO BP / PKO Bank Polski

1148

6.42

6

14

Erste Group

745

4.16

8

25

IS Yatirim

713

3.99

5

10

Top five investment banks –
arrangers of placement of domestic corporate bonds in Poland, 2017

Cbonds expresses its gratitude to the investment banks involved in
validation of deals included in the Cbonds rankings. To all participants of the
primary bonds and Eurobonds market, we suggest cooperation that makes our
rankings more equitable and reflective the real market situation. You can find
ways to communicate with us via the following link: (http://em.cbonds.com/pages/cbonds_em).